SYDNEY: A helicopter crashed into the top of a Hilton hotel in northeastern Australia on Monday (Aug 12), killing the pilot and igniting a fiery explosion on the building's roof.
SYDNEY: A helicopter crashed into the top of a Hilton hotel in northeastern Australia on Monday , killing the pilot and igniting a fiery explosion on the building's roof.
Mangled pieces of the helicopter's propeller landed in the hotel's pool, an emergency services official said. Two people who were staying in a room close to where the aircraft crashed were hospitalised for smoke inhalation."They just flew into that building," a female voice says in a video shared on social media that captured the aftermath."Shivers. People were living in that. It smashed right in.""One landed on the Cairns Esplanade and there was a second propeller located in the hotel pool on the bottom floor and it was on fire," she told local media.
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